This is definitely my last email... I just read your email again :(
check in System Preferences > Users & Groups - Login Items 
If you have any Applications showing there that you don't want to open 
automatically when you log in ... 
1. Select the name of the item you want to prevent from opening at login 
2. Click Delete (-) below the list on the right.

Sent from Ronni's iPad4

On 18/08/2013, at 2:10 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:

> Sorry Pat, I am trying to do too many things at once :(
> 
> Also in System preferences > General check - Recent Items:  Documents, Apps, 
> and Servers
> do you have a number selected?
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> On 18/08/2013, at 2:03 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Pat,
>> 
>> Do you Quit the Applications or just close the window?
>> 
>> Check in System Preferences > General - do you have selected "Close windows 
>> when quitting an Application"?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>> 
>> On 18/08/2013, at 1:33 PM, Pat <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> I close my Mac Pro, 10.8.4, down every night. Just before I shut it down, I 
>>> systematically close every open application. The last few months, when I 
>>> start the Mac up the next day, occasionally it comes up with all those 
>>> applications open, and it is now happening more frequently.
>>> 
>>> Is this a symptom of any know malady? Does anyone know what causes it? I do 
>>> not have any items in the Startupitems folder. 
>>> 
>>> Pat
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